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i'm so happy and delighted to be here with you, senator durbin. i've traveled from coast to coast to visit dozens of cities and communities and to listen to immigrant stories. some of my colleagues have visited their cities that are here with me today. and immigrants tell me that they are regarded with suspicion. they tell me they are frequently treated differently because of the way they look, sound, or spell their last name. in alabama, i met 20-year-old martha, a young woman raised in the u.s. one late afternoon while driving, she was pulled over. she was arrested for driving without a license and jailed so her status could be checked. because her u.s. citizen husband was not present, their alabama-born 2-year-old son was taken from the back seat of her car and turned over to state welfare agency. in south carolina, i met g abino who has been in the u.s. for nearly 13 years. he's married, fourth of two south carolina-born kids who works hard and owns his own home. gabino was stopped because he was pulling into his mobile home community, one of
i'm so happy and delighted to be here with you, senator durbin. i've traveled from coast to coast to visit dozens of cities and communities and to listen to immigrant stories. some of my colleagues have visited their cities that are here with me today. and immigrants tell me that they are regarded with suspicion. they tell me they are frequently treated differently because of the way they look, sound, or spell their last name. in alabama, i met 20-year-old martha, a young woman raised in the...
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senator durbin, you pointed out that the nation was shocked. if i could ask unanimous consent to put my entire statement in the record along with the list of the many organizations that are supporting the legislation that i filed, s. 1670. as you pointed out, senator durbin, the nation was shocked by the tragedy that took place in sanford, florida, the tragic death of 17-year-old trayvon martin. a very avoidable death. and the question i think most people are asking, and we want justice in this case. we're pursuing that. we have the department of justice investigation and very much want to see that investigation carried out. not only to make sure that justice is carried forward as far as those responsible for his death, but also as to how the investigation itself was handled. but i think the question that needs to be answered is whether race played a role in trayvon martin being singled out by mr. zimmerman. and that of course would be racial profiling. an area that we all believe we need to get rid of as far as the legitimacy of using racial p
senator durbin, you pointed out that the nation was shocked. if i could ask unanimous consent to put my entire statement in the record along with the list of the many organizations that are supporting the legislation that i filed, s. 1670. as you pointed out, senator durbin, the nation was shocked by the tragedy that took place in sanford, florida, the tragic death of 17-year-old trayvon martin. a very avoidable death. and the question i think most people are asking, and we want justice in this...
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thank you. >> senator kuntz. >> thank you, chairman durbin. thank you for calling this hearing for your long and passionate and vigilant advocacy for civil rights and for your real leadership in this area for this legislation and for this hearing. in my own role prior to becoming a senator as county executive, i worked hard in the supervision of a 380-sworn officer department to ensure we had an effective and strong outreach, not just traditional subject to harassment and communities like the african-american and latino communities but also post-9/11 making sure there was better training and outreach in relationship with our muslim community and given incidents that occurred in our community making sure we stayed as a policing organization engaged. and accountable. and i just wanted to start, officer gale and chief davis, by thanking you for your leadership in the policing community and for your service to the public. i appreciate your starting by just helping me understand what's the impact on a police force? that practices racial profiling,
thank you. >> senator kuntz. >> thank you, chairman durbin. thank you for calling this hearing for your long and passionate and vigilant advocacy for civil rights and for your real leadership in this area for this legislation and for this hearing. in my own role prior to becoming a senator as county executive, i worked hard in the supervision of a 380-sworn officer department to ensure we had an effective and strong outreach, not just traditional subject to harassment and...
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. >> good morning, senator durbin, ranking member graham. thank you for having me this morning. senator franken, senator blumenthal. i'm delighted to testify before you today. i am the national director of the american civil liberties uni union. a nonpartisan organization with over half a million members, hundreds of thousands of additional activists and supporters, and 53 state offices nationwide dedicated to the principles of equality and justice set forth in the u.s. constitution and in our laws protecting individual rights. for decades, the aclu has been at the forefront of the fight against all forms of racial profiling. racial profiling is policing based on crass stereotypes instead of facts, evidence, and good police work. racial profiling fuels fear and mistrust between law enforcement and the very communities they are supposed to protect. racial profiling is not only ineffective, it is also unconstitutional and violates basic noermrm of human rights b at home and abroad. my testimony lays out how race, religion, national origin, are used as proxies by suspicion in three
. >> good morning, senator durbin, ranking member graham. thank you for having me this morning. senator franken, senator blumenthal. i'm delighted to testify before you today. i am the national director of the american civil liberties uni union. a nonpartisan organization with over half a million members, hundreds of thousands of additional activists and supporters, and 53 state offices nationwide dedicated to the principles of equality and justice set forth in the u.s. constitution and...
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you say dick durbin signed on to our commissioner report, and they say dick durbin? god, what is this? so it's names now. that doesn't help. i can tell you that i really feel you're going to see people come together and drop all of the phony stuff. and the phony stuff is i'm not going to touch medicare, medicaid, social security and defense. those people are fraud. total fraud. and here's one. every cent of revenue last year, everything, excised, sales, everything that the federal government brought in, went to only three programs. medicare, medicaid and social security and we borrowed everything else including the wars and homeland security and culture and infrastructure and research and development. that's where we are. >> so there is the hopeful case. i want to go back to last august and this relatively unprecedented stalemate over the debt limit. last august. we saw the downgrades of the u.s. fiscal position immediately coming out of that. and it did seem like that was a moment when the world was watching and where the country was watching washington and walked a
you say dick durbin signed on to our commissioner report, and they say dick durbin? god, what is this? so it's names now. that doesn't help. i can tell you that i really feel you're going to see people come together and drop all of the phony stuff. and the phony stuff is i'm not going to touch medicare, medicaid, social security and defense. those people are fraud. total fraud. and here's one. every cent of revenue last year, everything, excised, sales, everything that the federal government...
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the senator from illinois channelling dick durbin said in effect, you better believe it. we mean that. because what they understand themselves to be doing and i think this is an important piece of this that has been absent from our current conversation, they understood what the 14th amendment does for this country. a lot of people think of it as a generous act to people who are here and their children get to be citizens. fair enough. it is generous, but it is also what you see in the congressional debates. they wanted to be able to claim the allegiance of everyone who was here. if you are a citizen, then the reciprocal is that the nation can claim your allegiance. the reciprocal is that you don't have to keep track of who was born here and whose parents were born here. who is a citizen by birth. when i register my child in school, i bring a birth certificate to show this child was born here. i don't have to bring my mother's birth certificate or grandmother's birth certificate. one of my grandmothers was never a citizen. i don't have to prove -- nobody will question me ab
the senator from illinois channelling dick durbin said in effect, you better believe it. we mean that. because what they understand themselves to be doing and i think this is an important piece of this that has been absent from our current conversation, they understood what the 14th amendment does for this country. a lot of people think of it as a generous act to people who are here and their children get to be citizens. fair enough. it is generous, but it is also what you see in the...
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every group from simpson-bowles to the gang of six with tom coburn over to dick durbin have said we're not going to solve our debt problem unless we do something about defense, about government spending in general, about the programs like social security, medicare and medicaid, and also about revenues. if you don't put all of those things on the table, there will be no bargain. >> our guests are co-authors of the book, "it's even worse than it looks, how american constitutional system collided." this is pittsburgh, pennsylvania, harry, republican line. hi. >> caller: hey, good morning. both sides of the fence are playing against each other, but the last two weeks, it's sort of like a comedy show. i see schumer and casey, this guy got this money from facebook, he's leaving the country. they have been attacking rich people four years. you go back, some of these politicians, harry reid, nancy pelosi they have been doing it forever. they are crying about it. i watch joe biden, they don't get us. he's worth over $5 million, lives in a $2 million. puts skin in the game, gets a pension, salar
every group from simpson-bowles to the gang of six with tom coburn over to dick durbin have said we're not going to solve our debt problem unless we do something about defense, about government spending in general, about the programs like social security, medicare and medicaid, and also about revenues. if you don't put all of those things on the table, there will be no bargain. >> our guests are co-authors of the book, "it's even worse than it looks, how american constitutional...
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senator durbin? >> thank you. good to see you. and thank you for your service. you have done an extraordinary job in one of the most challenging times in our nation's history. i thank you personally for taking some time to focus attention on my hometown of east st. louis, illinois, which sadly has one of the highest rates of violent crime per capita in the nation. there's a multiunit task force including fbi agents which is doing its level best to change that. i thank you for your willingness even with limited resources to participate. we have exchanged conversations, correspondence on the issue of training manuals, and i would like to make the record clear today about the current situation. i'm asking to enter into the records letters we exchanged in april and march of this year when it was disclosed when some parts of the training manuals became public, some things had been stated in the training of fbi agents which had been, i would say, characterized as inappropriate and unfair to a b arabs and muslims. and we have spoken about this personally. i have spoken
senator durbin? >> thank you. good to see you. and thank you for your service. you have done an extraordinary job in one of the most challenging times in our nation's history. i thank you personally for taking some time to focus attention on my hometown of east st. louis, illinois, which sadly has one of the highest rates of violent crime per capita in the nation. there's a multiunit task force including fbi agents which is doing its level best to change that. i thank you for your...
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but also i would like to remind my colleague, senator durbin mentioned the last time we did a transportation bill it was bipartisan but, in fact, the last two times it was bipartisan but the economic situation was far different than we face today. the economy was strong the last two times we passed transportation bills. the trust fund was flush with money. and we did have congressionally directed funding. but we also today face unsustainable deficits and debt, so we need to make sure we're moving forward with a bill that is paid for and i might add in a responsible way not smoke mirrors but to make sure we pay for this and pay for it in the right way. i also think there are things we've added to this, the keystone pipeline for one, it will improve our energy, the ability to get energy and create jobs because i also believe that this bill can be a job creator, can improve the economy, but key to what we believe in the house are the reforms, the stream lining reforms. as many of you know it takes on average 14 to 15 years to build a major construction project, the highway construction project
but also i would like to remind my colleague, senator durbin mentioned the last time we did a transportation bill it was bipartisan but, in fact, the last two times it was bipartisan but the economic situation was far different than we face today. the economy was strong the last two times we passed transportation bills. the trust fund was flush with money. and we did have congressionally directed funding. but we also today face unsustainable deficits and debt, so we need to make sure we're...
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that there's -- and this works for climate change as well as we saw in copenhagen and in cancun and durbin is just the absolute exhaustion with the notion of trying to negotiate amongst 193 countries at these u.n. megaconferences with 193 state representatives and sort of hangers-on like much of us. but i think that -- so i think that what you're going to see, frankly, on the trade front is a greater move towards regional or bilateral ftas, at least for the time being. the obama administration is putting a lot of stock in its notion of the trans-pacific partnership, for instance, which is an interesting experiment to try to define standards up as opposed to defining deviances down. we'll see whether or not they have domestic support for that if the president wins the election in november. on the climate front, again, my sense is that what's happened is that you've gotten a mixture of two different alternatives to the u.n. fccc process notwithstanding a very big pledge to come up with something that's a successor to kyoto. those on the one hand are many-lateral cooperation with does hold so
that there's -- and this works for climate change as well as we saw in copenhagen and in cancun and durbin is just the absolute exhaustion with the notion of trying to negotiate amongst 193 countries at these u.n. megaconferences with 193 state representatives and sort of hangers-on like much of us. but i think that -- so i think that what you're going to see, frankly, on the trade front is a greater move towards regional or bilateral ftas, at least for the time being. the obama administration...